Life IS a resilient thing!

"There’s no such thing as ruining your 

life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."

 

Sophie Kinsella

Happy birthday, Sophie Kinsella! The bestselling British author had already published five books under her real name—Madeleine Wickham—when she submitted a manuscript for a breezy chick lit story called Confessions of a Shopaholic. Worried her publisher wouldn't like the new direction, she used Sophie Kinsella as a pen name.

The heart of another~

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own." 

Willa Cather

American author Willa Cather (born December 7, 1873) only ever owned one house, a secluded summer cottage on Grand Manan Island in Canada. The small home had neither indoor plumbing nor electricity, but Cather liked the fact no one could telephone her there.

This is absolutely the truest thought I've read~ Although we may rush in saying, "Oh I know, Oh I've been there, that exact thing happened to me, Oh I can just feel your pain~   Never can we experience the same feelings, have the same reaction, or truly know how another feels...no matter how close.  Our dark forest belongs only to each of us~

Can two minuses make a plus??

Sometimes two minuses make a plus.
--Edith Shannon

What appears to be a problem sometimes turns out to be a most beneficial circumstance. We live only in the present, and it generally takes the perspective of hindsight to get the full meaning of an event. Over the years, we have learned that some of our best lessons actually caused us pain while we were in their clutches. What a relief to be able to see, now, that they had their silver lining. This principle still holds true.

We have had a lot of years to learn to take our experiences in stride, giving them no more weight than they deserve. But it's easy to forget that it's the accumulation of them all that defines who we are. The lost jobs, the friends who left, the hurdles in a marriage all played their part in the people we've become today. We are who we need to be right now.

I can't let a setback set me back today. I am evolving right on schedule.

from Keepers of the Wisdom by Karen Casey

Come squeeze my hand~

"Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me."

 

Dang Thuy Tram

Vietnamese civilian doctor Dang Thuy Tram (born November 26, 1942) was only 27 years old when she was killed in a gun battle. Her wartime diaries, which chronicled the last two years of her life, were published in 2005 under the title Yesterday, I Dreamed of Peace.

Happy Thanksgiving 1015

I am blessed and thankful beyond words~
thank you!

Air~

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."

 

Margaret Atwood

Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood! In addition to writing modern classics like The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, the Canadian author is also a part-time inventor. She came up with the idea for the LongPen, a signing device that lets people write remotely in ink from anywhere in the world.

NO wrong turns!!

"There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk." 

Guy Gavriel Kay

Happy birthday, Guy Gavriel Kay! The Canadian fantasy author had quite an enviable job as a young university student—Christopher Tolkien hired him to help edit his father J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished work.